Infineon’s This Week
Stevo and I will be flying out to SFO on Thursday this week to participate in the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Infineon Raceway, formerly known as Sears Point. Thus, the official name of the race is “Sears Pointless.” We are driving with my friend Paul and his Stick Figure Racing MR2 team (of course) based out of Salt Lake City. Paul and his guys out there have been working furiously on turning the MR2 into a compact replica of the “DeathMobile” featured at the end of the movie “Animal House.” I’d post photos of the car but Paul has sworn me to secrecy. I hope he won’t kill me for saying that it looks great!
We were hoping to also create the float “Eat Me” from which the DeathMobile emerges in the parade scene in the movie, but time and space prevented that from happening. Maybe next time?
I’ll try to update the blog while we’re out in California, but probably mostly via the Twitter link (or you can follow me on Twitter directly, my ID there is pmulry. You probably didn’t see that one coming, did you?). There is going to be a lot going on in our few short days out there. We have 4 on-track sessions on Friday to learn the track, plus we have to take the car through tech. I’m linking up with a couple other guys to try to get a wireless timing & scoring system setup so that teams can almost always know how crappy they are doing in the race, because for some reason, teams want that info like a crack junkie wants the rock. We have the race all day on Saturday, then a Pinewood Derby race afterward, for which Dave and I have been building a special car. Then another race day on Sunday, pack up the trailer, and head back to the airport for the redeye home.
A fun weekend is anticipated!
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